BlackRock is to buy a Mexican infrastructure investment fund that was behind projects of a contractor named in a scandal that has been involved the country's president, Enrique Pena Nieto, according to Reuters and other media organisations.

The global Digital Prosperity Fund of Amadeus Capital Partners, a London-based technology investment firm, was the lead investor in a $7 Series C investment round of what Amadeus says is "Brazil’s largest online classroom", Descomplica.

Private equity-backed Brazilian steakhouse chain Fogo de Chao has revealed it plans to raise up to $80m through its upcoming Nasdaq IPO after pricing shares between $16 and $18 each. The company, which Thomas H Lee Partners bought into through a $400m deal in 2012, specialises in fire-roasting meats using the centuries-old southern Brazilian cooking technique of churrasco.[...]

Actis, a London-based, emerging market investment specialist which had its origins as a Commonwealth Development Corporation entity more than 10 years ago, has opened an office in Mexico City, as it prepares to "capitalise on the many opportunities" it says exist in the region.

Development finance institutions have been the major supporters of the fledgling emerging market private equity industry, in part because other investors, lacking solid and reliable results data, remain wary, delegates to AltAssets’ Limited Partner Summit in London this week were told.